{"id":17665,"date":"2026-01-13T17:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/motorcade-rerouted-due-to-suspicious-object\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:22:15","slug":"motorcade-rerouted-due-to-suspicious-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/motorcade-rerouted-due-to-suspicious-object\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcade rerouted due to &#8216;suspicious object&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1768184511000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a><\/span>  motorcade took a different route than usual to the airport as he was departing Florida on Sunday due to a &ldquo;suspicious object,&rdquo; according to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The object, which the White House did not describe, was discovered during security sweeps in advance of Trump&rsquo;s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly,&rdquo; White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The president, when asked about the package by reporters, said, &ldquo;I know nothing about it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump left his Palm Beach, Florida, club, Mar-a-Lago, around 6:20 p.m. for the roughly 10-minute drive to the airport, but took a circular route around the city to get there. <\/p>\n<p>During the drive, police officers on motorcycles created a moving blockade for the motorcade, at one point almost colliding with the vans that accompanied Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Air Force One was parked on the opposite side of the airport from where it is usually located and the lights outside the plane were turned off. <\/p>\n<p>Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman for U.S. Secret Service, said the secondary route was taken just as a precaution and that &ldquo;that is standard protocol.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-airport-motorcade-98b36c698dfdc52e7eaa4c92613d3e8b\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; President Donald Trump&rsquo;s motorcade took a different route than usual to the airport as he was departing Florida on Sunday due to a &ldquo;suspicious object,&rdquo; according to the White House. The object, which the White House did not describe, was discovered during security sweeps in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}